John Davis (Massachusetts)

John Davis (13 January 1787-19 April 1854) was a member of the US House of Representatives (NR-MA 5) from 4 March 1825 to 14 January 1834 (succeeding Jonas Sibley and preceding Levi Lincoln Jr.), Governor from 9 January 1834 to 1 March 1835 (succeeding Lincoln and preceding Samuel Turell Armstrong) and from 7 January 1841 to 17 January 1843 (interrupting Marcus Morton's terms), and a US Senator (W) from 4 March 1835 to 5 January 1841 (succeeding Nathaniel Silsbee and preceding Isaac C. Bates) and from 24 March 1845 to 3 March 1853 (succeeding Bates and preceding Edward Everett).

Biography
John Davis was born in Northborough, Massachusetts in 1787, and he became a lawyer in Worcester in 1815. He served in the US House of Representatives from 1825 to 1834, as Governor from 1834 to 1835, as a US Senator from 1835 to 1841, as a representative from 1841 to 1843, and as a Senator from 1845 to 1853. He opposed the Mexican-American War and the extension of slavery to the new territories, although he supported the Compromise of 1850. He retired from politics in 1853, and he died in 1854.